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11 May 2011

Digital Images of Yale’s Vast Cultural Collections Now Available for Free

"Scholars, artists and other individuals around the world will enjoy free access to online images of millions of objects housed in Yale's museums, archives, and libraries thanks to a new "Open Access" policy that the University announced today. Yale is the first Ivy League university to make its collections accessible in this fashion, and already more than 250,000 images are available through a newly developed collective catalog.

The goal of the new policy is to make high quality digital images of Yale's vast cultural heritage collections in the public domain openly and freely available...."

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Dr Lisa Stead (@LisaRoseStead) is Lecturer in Film at the University of East Anglia, and researches early 20th century women's writing, intermediality and British silent cinema, and histories of women's interwar creative labour.

Dr Carrie Smith (@CarrieRSmith) is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Cardiff. Carrie's research focuses upon Ted Hughes, composition and poetic process.